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Ur Salam (City of Peace): Jerusalem
Posted by: adonis49 on: September 3, 2020
Ur Salam (City of Peace): Jerusalem
Recent archeological works by Kathleen Kenyon (2009) discovered a wall surrounding the city of Jerusalem dating from the 18th century BC; water was diverted through underground canals from the fresh source of Guihon to Siloe cisterns inside the walls.
The sea people called Philistines had devastated the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, destroyed the nascent Greek fleet and settled in Gaza and the southern coastline of Palestine around the 12th century.
The entire eastern coastline from north Syria to Sinai was dominated by the Canaanites.
In southern Palestine, the Canaanites had to flee northward and retreat inside toward Jerusalem, one of their 25 City-States. Jerusalem was then inhabited by over 10,000 urban dwellers, a huge number for the period.
Around 11th century BC, Moses (a myth) arrived with his nomadic tribes to the borders with Canaan. His successors endeavored to settle in part of Palestine and battled with the Philistines. The Canaanites aristocracy aided David to enter Jerusalem and this class was his administrative supporters. (Just faked stories from the Jewish book written in 200 BC in Alexandria)
David thus had two high priests (Evyatar and Sadoq), two military leaders (Joab and Benayahu), and two heirs apparent (Adoniyyahou and Salomon).
David had also two formal sanctuaries for the Jews and the Canaanites. David adopted the God of the Land El and the demi-Gods of the Sun (Shahar) and the Moon (Shalem) were worshipped.
The Jewish Yahweh (God of thunders) was relegated to the background and played a support function in times of urgent need.
The Jews had no such concept of “throne” and the Canaanite aristocracy provided a throne to David and his solar God was Justice personified and a divinity of the order “Sadeq”: Milki Sadeq was the King of Jerusalem when Abraham came to Canaan and paid the tenth (one tenth) to Melki Sadeq.
Salomon supporters of the Canaanites assassinated Adoniyyahou and Joab and Ebyatar was pursuit.
Salomon relied on the King of Tyr to build his Temple for the Sun God facing east.
The dedication read: “The divinity of the Sun has announced: Yahweh has decided to live in the shadow. A house has been renovated for his dwelling”. The God Sun sent two messengers of Right and Justice to destroy Sodom.
In this event as in others, Yahweh shares the responsibility as a subordinate to the Sun God. Slowly but surely, Yahweh acquired a convincing divinity by the period that preceded the exile to Babylon.
In 587 BC, the Babylonian King Nabuchodonosor destroys part of the Temple.
The Persian King Cyrus repatriates the Jews in 538 and restores the temple.
Alexander enters Jerusalem in 332 and Judea falls under the Ptolemy dynasty.
The Seleucid dynasty dominates Jerusalem from 200 to 142.
Judas Maccabeus revolted in 164 and enters Jerusalem which falls to the Hasmonide dynasty until the Roman Pompey takes Jerusalem in 63 BC.
The zealot Jews take over Jerusalem for two years in 66 AC. The Roman General Titus enters Jerusalem in the year 70 and burns the Temple.
Jerusalem is then named Aelia Capitolina.
Bar Kokheba recaptures Jerusalem in 131. Emperor Hadrian enters Jerusalem and the Jews are definitely dispersed and forbidden to enter Jerusalem.
Emperor Constantine consecrates the Anastasis (The Saint Sepulcher).
The Persian King Chosroes destroys Jerusalem in 614.
Emperor Heracles retakes the city in 628.
The Caliph of Islam Omar enters Jerusalem in 638. The Dome of the Rock is built in 691. The mosque Al Aqsa is built in 705.
The crusaders enter the city in 1099. The Sultan Salah el Din enters the city in 1187 and chased out the crusaders. The Turkish Sultan Selim 2 enters the city in 1244 and gives Jerusalem a religious function and dots it with many religious schools (madrassa).
The Ottoman Empire captured the city in 1516.
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilds the walls and enlarges the city with newer walls.
In 1967 the Zionist State of Israel enters Jerusalem. Begin declares that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel in 1980.
The State of Israel is flaunting all UN resolutions to stop destroying Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem that is proposed to be the Capital of the Palestinian State.
Testimonials of the civil war in Lebanon
Posted by: adonis49 on: September 3, 2020
Testimonials of a civil war:
The case of Zeinab Shaaban Naanuh . Posted in 2008
Note: civil war in Lebanon (1975-1991)
The issue of the daily Al Balad, April 17, 2005
Zinab Sheaban Naanuh is from the Shia Muslim sect and in her fifty now. Zinab had to relocate 7 times with her four children, without the assistance of her husband.
When she was living in Ras Dekwani in East Beirut, close to the Palestinian refugees’ camp of Tel Zaatar.
Water was the priciest commodity during the war.
People had to walk far to the only well available because all water lines were destroyed or cut off.
In every sortie for fetching water, 3 out of 10 volunteers died during the trip to the well.
Then the Christian militias polluted the well by dumping dead bodies.
Zinab new born child almost died of dehydration and she had to leave all her children and tempt death to the well.
Her husband Abu Nasser sold cigarettes, but they lived the good life before the war. Her husband had to travel to Russia for a stomach surgery and Zinab did not see him for the duration of the war.
She remembers the Black Saturday massacre as the Christian militias slaughtered all of Beirut port workers using machetes, daggers, and bullets, while her husband was isolated in West Beirut for two weeks.
One day, a butcher sold her half of a whole mutton for two cigarettes. Zinab never patronized any shelter for the duration of the war because of the serious diseases contracted in these infected places and opted instead to taking her chances.
Zinab twice gave birth during heavy shelling while having to cater for her children all alone.
Once, a rocket entered her living room but did not explode. After cleaning the house she carried the rocket outside the building where expert people detonated it and the Captain admonished her for this foolishness.
After the fall of Tal Zaatar, Zinab experienced her worst nightmares during her exit from Dekwani to West Beirut. The Christian militias exterminated the Palestinian males and left only one male to each mother and carried away the rest to their death.
One method the militia used to carry out this mass killing plan was to deliver sleeping pills under the guise of aspirin to the refugees and to retrieve the males sentenced to death while people were sleeping.
A taxi driver charged Zinab $100 to take her out of this mad place.
Zinab was an eyewitness to the impalements of people: two jeeps would attach the limbs of a person then drive away in different directions.
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